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    Nintendo Rumours | Mana MMORPG & Dragon Quest IX on Wii!

    on 14.07.2006 at 07:32 User Icon Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz) Number of Comments Comments: 23 Number of Reads Reads: 5648
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    Okay, so you should always take rumours with a plentiful supply of salt pinches, but when they come from publications such as Japan's Famitsu or the US magazine EGM, then people tend to pay more attention. Anyway, enough chatter...here are the rumours this month:

  • Red Faction will be released on the PS3 in 2007;

  • Nintendo has plans to release a version of Earthbound on the Nintendo DS, which uses the touch-screen (despite Mother 3 on GBA apparently being the last by its original creator);

  • The next generation of EyeToy should be available from the launch of the PS3;

  • Electronic Arts is working on a next generation version of Batman, but not based on a Film;

  • Square Enix has no plans to release Front Mission Online or the XBOX 360 title Project Sylpheed in the USA;

  • Square Enix is currently creating an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) game based on the Mana series for Nintendo's Wii;

  • If sales of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Nintendo DS) and Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Wii) get good sales, then the company will bring Dragon Quest IX to the Wii!


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    tiamat1990

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    Then those games better get fucking good sales!!!Smilie
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    I've just read a source of this, apparently the Earthbound one would be a collection of the old games, which'd be very nice!


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    Mason said:
    Ive just read a source of this, apparently the Earthbound one would be a collection of the old games, whichd be very nice!


    A compliation would be awesome, and would sell an absolute bucketload in Japan!

    Hopefully a majority of these rumours have some truth, they would do wonders for Nintendo!

    ( Edited on 14.07.2006 08:51 by jb )


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    cool i want all the DQ stuff and a mana mmo would be amazing
    on 14.07.2006 at 07:56
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    I was hoping Wii would get a MMO I can't wait, That's awsome
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    hopefully I get to play all the games I wanna play in the weeks to come!
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    Do you know, that a 'Mana'-MMO would be as awesome as an Final-Fantasy-MMO? This world has a wonderful and rich background!

    And you guys: All getting at least 3 Dragon-Quest-Games, you hear me??? *eg*

    Would you push me: the Dragon Quest, which came just recently for PS2 was part VIII, right?

    And Earthbound - I gogglet it a bit but never heard a lot from this game. Does someone has a good source with screens, maybe soundtrack, story and more for me? That would be very nixe...
    I find your lack of faith disturbing!
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    dojo

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    Laurelin, have you played SSBM? One of the characters, Ness, is from that series. Also, if you've got his trophy, read it a bit. Er, try going on Wikipedia as well. They are usually a bit more helpful for in depth stuff than Google.

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    There is also a lot of fan sites, its a populer cult game so there's plenty of info.
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    Gaspar

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    A mana mmorpg on the wii would be great, but that brings up the question, how would the Wii controller be used in an mmo, something similar to what we have seen at E3 with Zelda maybe?

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    Who the fuck are you when you take that mask away ?
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    The Croft

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    I wonder what Square Enix sees as a success Slime Slime Mori sold 300k in that good? considering it is a dragon quest game and it is a spin off

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    Dragon Quest VIII is in my top 3 best RPGs of all time and if IX is anything like it then I'll be snapping it up on release. However, I'm not going to buy the other Dragon Quest games as, quite frankly, I'm not after a monster collecting game and Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime just doesn't interest me at all. Now, if they were to release some of the earlier DQ games... Smilie

    Online Mana could be good, Red Faction was fun when it came out all those years ago, Batman is more than likely destined for nothing more than mediocrity and it's a shame that publishers aren't willing to risk quirky games in territories outside of Japan.
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    I do not believe any of this stuff. Especially the Square-Enix information. There is no way Square would place a Sales quota on Nintendo.

    EGM needs to keep their rumors to themselves.
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    What if the Wii and DS dragon quests are crap and no one buys them?
    It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
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    You guys need better happy smilies... I swear... no smilie is happy enough to describe that the Dragon Quest series could possibly be permanently moved/copied to Nintendo....

    Oh good god...

    BUY THOSE GAMES PEOPLE!! Smilie I'm sure that Japan will love it, so as long as it does alright over here, we have nothing to worry about. Unless they decide to follow the trend by not releasing the DS & Wii Dragon Quest games over here.

    MMO on Wii!! AWESOME!! Smilie

    EDIT: Speaking of Final Fantasy MMO, I really hope it isn't a fortune to pay to play online, I hope it's free... Smilie

    ( Edited on 14.07.2006 16:46 by Sought The Poltercow )


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    ooo plz let the DQIX be true plz plz!! Smilie

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    Slime Mori Mori has already done around 300,000 units in Japan, which far exceeded expectations...just like Children of Mana...

    The DQM game is expected to do at least 500,000 and DQ at the launch of the Wii should be one of the strongest titles.


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    on 14.07.2006 at 22:07
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    Who the fuck are you when you take that mask away ?
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    311,500 units for Slim Slim Mori
    284,000 units fot CoM

    Thought that CoM would have reached at least 500k

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    A MMO admitedly would be nice.
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    jesusraz said:
    Slime Mori Mori has already done around 300,000 units in Japan, which far exceeded expectations...just like Children of Mana...The DQM game is expected to do at least 500,000 and DQ at the launch of the Wii should be one of the strongest titles.
    I thought Children of Mana did horribly disappointingly due to DSL shortages? Smilie

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    It did...

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    311,500 units for Slim Slim Mori284,000 units fot CoMThought that CoM would have reached at least 500k


    It would have done so easily, but the cock up at the DS Lite launch meant sales were stunted in the first week and the game barely recovered. It did ~4,000 units last week, which is not bad for how long it's been out. I can understand Square Enix checking with Nintendo about the supply of DS Lites around FFIII's launch!


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    Well, Dragon Quest: Monsters DS should do amazingly well, maybe even a million. The series did over 2,000,000 in Japan on the original Gameboy. The second game dropped to a little under a 2,000,000. Then the last one on the GBA did around 600,000-650,000. So far most DS games have done better than their GBA counterparts. So it is possible for that game to sell over a million, and trust me, Square Enix would be happy with that.

    The Dragon Quest Swords game on the Wii could do fairly well. Since it is a launch game I expect it to do a fair bit better than Dragon Quest Yangus (PS2), which is another Dragon Quest spinoff. Maybe even 400,000 which would be fantastic. Dragon Quest Yangus did around 250,000 in early May this year.
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    Exactly, Dragon Quest Monsters is defintely a 750,000+ seller for the DS, especially if Rocket Slime managed its 300,000.

    As for Mana - it was strange to see Dawn of Mana for the PS2, but considering the continued strong sales of Children of Mana on the DS, even before its Western release, I'd say SEx is strongly favouring Nintendo at the moment.


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